Building -2.0.4: Configuration Error

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed Feb 14 23:50:20 EST 2007


Quoting David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net>:

>> Unlikely..  More likely (check the archives of the gnucash lists)
>> you need some libffi development package installed.  Some  distributions
>> have it packages separately.
>
> It's also included in the g-wrap 1.9.6 tarball, isn't it? It is a  
> very old version from before ffi got included in gcc, hence some  
> problems with various platforms. And gcc isn't spending much time on  
> compatibility with less-than-wonderfully-current distribs.

True..  It's in the g-wrap tarball, too.  but some distributions
still package it separately.

-derek

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